From The Globe and Mail (via Connie Crosby), this article describes how video clips drive considerable traffic to even small blogs. In addition, it notes the potentially significant impact of vlogs on e-commerce, political discourse and news in general. And don’t forget the video search engines as well.
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Daily Archives: March 10, 2005
More on the FEC and Regulating Bloggers
From Roll Call today (subscription req’d) this article abstract: “FEC May Exempt Bloggers – Amid a growing hysteria sweeping the Internet over the idea that the Federal Election Commission intends to crack down on bloggers, some FEC officials say they are open to creating an exemption for those who maintain Web logs to ensure they… Continue Reading
Can Blogging Assist the Intelligence Community?
We Need Spy Blogs – An Army officer calls for better information gathering. Continue Reading
New Features Allow Users To Customize Google News
What is customized news?: “We’ve made a number of improvements to Google News that allow you to customize your News front page by creating sections that focus on topics you care about…You can also design your custom front page by mixing and matching existing standard sections from the 22 regional editions of Google News from… Continue Reading
Big Time Shredder in Action
On March 2, I referenced several sources advocating destroying hard drive platters as the only reliable means of permanently wiping the data. As a follow-up, take a look at this movie gallery of shredding demonstrations that includes CD’s/floppy discs, computer circuit boards, and whole computers (requires Flash player). [blogdex] Continue Reading
Senators Introduce Faster FOIA Act
Press release from Sen. Patrick Leahy today: “Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the ranking Democratic member of the committee, introduced legislation on Thursday to establish an advisory Commission on Freedom of Information Act Processing Delays. The 16-member commission would be charged with reporting to Congress… Continue Reading
